Create: Day 4
April 4, 2011 
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Day 4
Find your creative core.
Paging Dr. Freud.
Get out your glue, your poster board (or any piece of cardboard), and your magazines. Today we’re going to make dream boards, vision boards, creative collages…by whatever name, their purpose is the same. To find the core of your creative desires.
The questions you’re keeping in mind are:
How can I live my live more creativity?
What do I want to accomplish in my creative life?
What do I want out of my creative life?
How will my new, more creative world look?
You’re not literally trying to answer each question by ripping out some photo from Better Homes and Gardens or People or Sports Illustrated, of course. And feel free to substitute your own questions or revise the above to address specifics (for instance, I ask, “what do I want to accomplish with my writing?”) Don’t overthink!
You can do this in less than an hour:
- Set a timer for 22 minutes and tear through your magazines, cutting out any image, any words, any colors…anything that appeals to you. Don’t think, just let it rip.
- For the next 22 minutes, paste your images on the board.
- You’re not trying to make art here, you’re just participating in a kind of visual Rorschach test. You might be surprised by what attracts you.
If you wish, you can spend a day making a more detailed collage, like the one I did last summer, shown here. I had fun with it, scribbled on it with pens, put color washes on it, even glued on a few things I found around the house.
Regina Leeds, of the fabulous Zen Organizing series of books (I’ll review them later), encourages you to make “dream boards,” a way of seeing your dreams in a physical, concrete form–no matter what those dreams are. If you want to redo a room of your house, for example, your dream board can represent how you want that room to feel. If you want a new career, your dream board points the way.
If you want a bit more guidance, go ahead and skip ahead to Create Day 55 in which we revisit vision boards.
Create Month 1
What to do so far:
In case you missed a day, the reminders below are clickable.
Have fun.
Be violent and original in your creative life.
Make collages that represent you and your core desires.
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